Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with State Secretary Baron von Weizsacker: "I was impressed by one thing, namely Baron von Weizsacker's detachment and calm. He seemed very confident and professed to believe that Russian assistance to the Poles would not only be entirely negligible but that the U. S. S. R. would even, in the end, join in sharing in the Polish spoils. Nor did my insistence on the inevitability of British intervention seem to move...
...Buffer. There had been reports in highest Berlin and Moscow circles that a strip of Poland would be left as a "buffer state" between Russia and Germany. This was even mooted in an official Moscow broadcast. Brushing it aside, the High Commands decided that no sufficient Polish authority remained in Poland last week to form the nucleus of a useful buffer, that the only thing to do was to draw the technically strongest possible frontier, separating the Russian and German Armies by the physical expanse of three great Polish rivers, the Narew, the Vistula...
Poles accused as "snipers" at the German Army were rounded up for even harsher treatment than the tens of thousands of Polish prisoners who were being shipped off constantly to work in Germany, mostly on farms but also in unskilled factory jobs where it would be difficult for them to commit acts of sabotage. They were promised pay at 60% of prevailing German wage scales, and Nazi authorities rushed about trying to get their ragged prisoners-many Polish soldiers had thrown away their uniforms-adequate clothes, shoes and overcoats for the winter rains were beginning, epidemics were feared...
...Russians we want to enter Berlin," explained Lord Fisher, "not the French or English." But even though the Russians were then on Britain's side, even though enemy airplanes then offered small hazard, Lord Fisher's plan never got to first base. Bitterly he observed: "The unparalleled Armada of 612 vessels constructed to carry out this decisive act in the decisive theatre of war was diverted and perverted to the damned Dardanelles...
...that a British naval attempt at the Baltic will be seen in World War II. Though the German Navy is this time far weaker (42 ships v. 254 for the Allies), this time the Russians (with 28 more ships) cannot be counted on to join a march against Berlin, even if a shallow-draft armada should push through. Besides submarines, the Gate-crashers would now have to cope with large minefields at the outlet of the three narrow channels to the Baltic, as well as bombing planes...